560 NOTE ON THE GENUS APHRITIS, C.V. 



Pseudajjhritis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. & Acclim. See. Vict. i. 

 1872, p. 92. 



Phricus, Berg, Ann. Mus. Buenos Aires, iv. 1895, p. 65 (to replace 



Aphritis, C.V.) 



Head somewhat depressed, the snout short; mouth rather small, 

 the maxillary of moderate width and extending to or nearly to the 

 vertical from the middle of the eye; lower jaw the longer; pala- 

 tine teeth present; opercle with a feeble spine ; gill-membranes 

 free from the isthmus; dorsal fins well separated, rather low, the 

 first originating far behind the insertion of the pectorals ; dorsal 

 rays branched; anal fin with two semidetached spines, the anterior 

 the longer, originating well in advance of the second dorsal; 

 lower pectoral rays simple; scales finely ctenoid; head and body 

 without cutaneous appendages. 



Type: — Pseudaphritis urvillii. 



= Aphritis urvillii, Cuv. & Val. 1831, = Psetidaphritis bassii, 

 Casteln. 1872, = Aphintis bassi, Ogilby, 1890; 1 = Eleginus bursinus, 

 Cuv. & Val. 1830. 



Distribution : — Fresh water fishes from south-eastern 

 Australia and Tasmania. 



If the suggestion hei'e made, that Eleginus btirsinus* is 

 identical with Aphritis urvillii, be correct, our fish will have to 

 be called Pseudaphritis bursinus. E. bursinus was said to have 

 been collected by Quoy and Gaimard in Port Jackson during their 

 first voyage to the southern hemisphere in the Uranie; it has not 

 since been recognised. 



"Ciivier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. p. 1, 1S30. 



